Dictionary Definition
stuff
Noun
1 the tangible substance that goes into the
makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material";
"wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" [syn: material]
2 miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk
was full of stuff" [syn: whatchamacallit,
whatsis, sundry, sundries]
3 informal terms for personal possessions; "did
you take all your clobber?" [syn: clobber]
5 unspecified qualities required to do or be
something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a
United States Marine"
6 information in some unspecified form; "it was
stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
7 a critically important or characteristic
component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
Verb
1 fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets
with candy"
2 press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope";
"She thrust the letter into his hand" [syn: thrust, shove, squeeze]
3 obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her
arteries are blocked" [syn: lug, choke up,
block] [ant: unstuff]
4 overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of
oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on
icecream" [syn: gorge,
ingurgitate,
overindulge,
glut, englut, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf
out]
5 treat with grease, fill, and prepare for
mounting; "stuff a bearskin"
6 fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow
with feathers"; "The old lady wants to have her dead poodle stuffed
by the taxidermist"
7 fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you
stuffed the turkey yet?"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌf
Noun
- The tangible substance that goes into the
makeup of a physical object.
- What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?
- italbrac-colon cadigan Substitution for
material of unknown
type or name.
- Can I have some of that stuff on my ice-cream sundae?
- Substitution for trivial details (youth slang)
- I had to do some stuff.
Related terms
Translations
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup
of a physical object
- Japanese: 原料, 材料, 素材
cadigan: substitution for material of unknown
type or name
- Japanese: もの
substitution for trivial details
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Chinese: 材料
- ttbc Dutch: materiaal
- ttbc French: substance (1), machin (2), truc (2)
- ttbc German: Material , Stoff , Zeug
- ttbc Greek: ουσία
- ttbc Hebrew: דברים p
- ttbc Italian: roba (1), cose p (2)
- ttbc Korean: 재료
- ttbc Portuguese: material
- ttbc Russian: вещество (veshchestvo)
- ttbc Spanish: materia
Verb
- To fill something up in
a compressed manner.
- She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret stuffing recipe of diced bread, onions, and celery .
- To be sated.
- I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.
- In the context of "British|Australian": To be broken.
- It’s stuffed.
- In the context of "vulgar|British|Australian": Insult.
- Get stuffed you arsehole!
- To be cut
off in a race by having one's projected and committed racing
line (trajectory) disturbed by an abrupt maneuver by a competitor.
- I got stuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash.
Translations
to fill something up in a compressed manner
- Japanese: 詰める
to be sated
- Japanese: 満たす
British, Australian: to be broken
- Japanese: 壊れる
vulgar, British, Australian: insult
to be cut off in a race
- ttbc Chinese: 充塞
- ttbc Dutch: vullen
- ttbc French: bourrer
- ttbc German: stopfen
- ttbc Hebrew: למלא
- ttbc Italian: farcire
- ttbc Portuguese: encher
- ttbc Russian: заполнить (zapolnit')
- ttbc Slovenian: basati
- ttbc Spanish: rellenar
See also
Extensive Definition
Stuff may also refer to:
- Stuff (cloth), a type of cloth or fabric used to fill pillows and other items
- Stuffing, a substance which is often placed in the cavities of food items
- Stuffed animal, a child's soft toy.
- Stuffed or preserved animals, created through the art of taxidermy
In computing:
- Bit stuffing, the insertion of noninformation bits into data
- HowStuffWorks, a website explaining how various things work
- Stuff (website), an online news service run by Fairfax New Zealandhttp://www.stuff.co.nz
- .stuff filetype
In popular culture:
- Stuff (magazine), a men's magazine
- Stuff (band), a 1970s-80s fusion/rhythm and blues music group
- Stuff (album), a 1997 album by Holly McNarland
- Stuff, a 1992 album by Bill Wyman
- Stuff (novel), a 1997 novel by Joseph Connolly
- The Stuff, a 1985 horror/comedy film by Larry Cohen
- The Wright Stuff, a British television programme
- Stuff (film), a mini-documentary about John Frusciante's life
- The Right Stuff, a book and film
- Alexei Sayle's Stuff, a 1980s television sketch show
In philosophy:
In sports:
- Cincinnati Stuff, a professional basketball team in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
stuff in Simple English: Stuff
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abilities, accessories, accomplishments,
addictive drug, air,
aliment, allay, anhydrate, atom, atomic particles, atoms, attitude, attributes, axiom, baggage, balderdash, baloney, bar, batten, being, belongings, bind, blast-freeze, block, block up, blockade, bolt, bolt down, bosh, bottom, breast-feed, brim, brine, brute matter, building
block, bull, bullshit, bung, bunk, bunkum, candy, capabilities, caulk, ceil, center, charge, chattels, chemical element,
chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up,
claptrap, clobber, clog, clog up, cloth, cloy, component, compress, congest, constipate, constituent, core, cork, corn, cover, cram, cram in, crap, creations, crowd, crowd in, cure, dam, dam up, dangerous drug,
dehydrate, desiccate, devour, distillate, distillation, dope, dough, drapery, drench, drive in, drug, dry, dry-cure, dry-nurse, dry-salt,
earth, effects, element, elementary particle,
elementary unit, elixir,
embalm, engorge, entity, equipment, essence, essential, essentiality, essentials, etoffe, evaporate, fabric, face, fatten, fatten up, feather, felt, fiddle-faddle, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up,
fire, flapdoodle, flower, focus, force, force in, force-feed,
foster, foul, freeze, freeze-dry, freight, fume, fundamental, fundamental
particle, fundamentals, fur, furniture, garbage, gear, gist, glut, gluttonize, gobble, goods, gorge, gormandize, gravamen, grit, gulp, gulp down, guttle, guzzle, hard drug, hard stuff,
heart, hogwash, hot air, humbug, hyle, hypostasis, impact, impedimenta, individual, ingredients, inlay, inner essence, interline, irradiate, jade, jam, jam in, jam-pack, jerk, junk, kernel, kipper, kit, knock in, lace, lactate, lade, line, live to eat, load, lumber, makings, malarkey, marinade, marinate, marrow, material, material resources,
material world, materiality, materials, materiel, matter, meat, medium, molecule, monad, mummify, napery, natural world, nature, nonsense, nourish, nub, nucleus, nurse, nurture, nutrify, nuts and bolts,
object, obstipate, obstruct, overburden, overcharge, overdose, overeat, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, overindulge, overlade, overload, oversaturate, overstuff, overweight, pack, pack in, pad, pall, pang, paraphernalia, pelf, personal, physical world,
pickle, piffle, pith, plenum, plug, plug up, plunder, plunge in, poke in,
poppycock, possessions, postulate, pound in, preservatize, press, press in, principle, property, push in,
quick-freeze, quid,
quiddity, quintessence, quintessential, rag, ram, ram in, raven, raw material, refrigerate, rhino, rocks, rot, rubbish, run in, salt, sap, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, scratch, season, shekels, shit, shove, silk, slake, smash, smoke, smoke-cure, soak, soul, spile, spirit, squash, squeeze, squeeze in, stanch, staple, stay, stench, stock, stop, stop up, stopper, stopple, store, stuff and nonsense, stuff
in, stuff up, stumpy,
substance, substances, substratum, suckle, sugar, sum and substance, supercharge, supersaturate, supply, surcharge, surfeit, swill, tackle, talents, tamp, tamp in, tangible, textile, textile fabric,
texture, the four
elements, the nitty-gritty, things, thrust, thrust in, tissu, tissue, top off, trappings, traps, trash, tricks, tripe, twaddle, unit of being, virtuality, wad, wainscot, water, weave, web, wedge in, weft, weight, wet-nurse, wolf, wolf down, woof, wool, works